🐂 boolish - top news

• Karim from Parity made a Polkadot song with AI and it is pretty good in my opinion (if you like pop music, give it a listen).

• Remy from Parity published extensive details about the upcoming Polkadot Deployment Portal, a tool that simplifies how projects deploy on Polkadot. Anyone will be able to take advantage of the PDP’s intuitive UI and capabilities, allowing you to configure, deploy and manage a rollup with a few simple clicks. Fill this form if you would like to be an early tester.

• Copper is expanding its institutional-grade digital asset custody offerings to include Polkadot Asset Hub and parachain tokens, thanks to the ongoing work of Velocity Labs.

• peaq's tremendous growth continues, reaching an impressive milestone of 2.5 million wallets with access to 50 DePINs across 20 industries.

• JAMdot Technologies, the team building a Python implementation of JAM, has achieved milestone 1 of the 10M DOT JAM implementation prize.

• Polkadot has…it all by lolmcshizz.

⭕️ ecosystem

• Acurast has partnered with decentralized VPN Nym to provide residential IPs through its DePIN compute network.

  • Acurast has integrated with OriginTrail to enable secure and confidential AI agents.

• Ajuna’s Big Ballz of Bajun game has surpassed the massive milestone of one million mints.

• Centrifuge-powered Janus Henderson Anemoy Treasury Fund was selected for a $200 million allocation in the Spark Tokenization Grand Prix competition.

• EWT is now trading on Hydration.

• InvArch's recently launched DAO management portal makes creating and funding a DAO easier than ever. You can now bootstrap your DAO treasury with a growing list of assets, including DOT, USDC, USDT, and even WUD.

• Integritee’s privacy-enhanced transaction DApp Incognitee now supports Asset Hub USDT and USDC for private transfers, vouchers, and messaging.

• peaq DePINs are now on JamboPhone—starting with Silencio.

  • peaq unveiled Universal Machine Time (UMT), a tool that enables any machine or DePIN to sync its clock with the network and timestamp any event with extreme precision.

• Phala published Performance Benchmark: Running SP1 zkVM in TEE H200 with Low Overhead.

• t3rn’s V2 Testnet is now live.

• Vortex, powered by Pendulum, now supports seamless off-ramping of USDT and USDC to Brazilian Real using the Pix instant payment system.

• Xcavate’s (real-estate fundraise on Polimec has progressed to the funding round, which will last for 14 days. Funding will be approved if participants commit at least 33% of the $250K target.

💻 technical

• A KAGOME validator is now live in the active validator set. This is the second implementation of the Polkadot Host to be actively producing blocks on the Polkadot relay chain.

• niftesty released a new Polkadot next.js app starter template that helps devs avoid setting up the same dependencies and configurations for every new Polkadot project, providing a solid foundation to jumpstart Polkadot App Development.

• Interested in quickly creating a Polkadot dapp? Check out the create-polkadot-dapp NPM package.

• Curious about how smart contracts on the Asset Hub will work? Check out Cyril Leutwiler’s talk at Sub0 here.

💰 opportunities

• Encode Club is launching a 4-week Polkadot Scalability Hackathon starting April 7 with over $33,000 in rewards. Register here.

• PBA-X’s (online Polkadot Blockchain Academy) next session begins on April 14. You can register here.

• Polkadot Italia is running a community engagement campaign on Airlyft. The prize pool, which currently includes Polkadot and Inter Miami CF swag, is growing by the day.

• Bifrost’s BNC token is now live on Ascendex. Deposit at least 1 BNC by March 24th for a chance to share in a 20K BNC prize pool.

🏛️ governance

For more information on Polkadot governance statistics, check out the Polkadot Dune governance dashboard.

🕓 confirming

• Ref 1462: Funding the 2025 development of Polkadot-API

👍🏾 passing

• Ref 1474: Proposing curators for the Polkadot Fast-Grants Bounty

• Ref 1475: Funding Subscan to integrate PVM to its explorer and indexer services

• Ref 1476: Retroactive funding for JUST Ventures

• Ref 1463: Funding Polkassembly for 2025

• Ref 1468: Upgrading the Polkadot Asset Hub and Collectives parachains to runtime 1.4.2.

• Ref 1477: Funding for ReactiveDOT

• Ref 1480: Increasing the Proof-of-Validity size to 10 MB, allowing for larger parachain blocks among other things

• Ref 1484: Increasing the size of the validator active set from 500 to 600

• Ref 1485: Funding for Public RPC Providers via Bounty 31

• Ref 1486: Upgrading Asset Hub and Collectives system parachains to Runtime 1.4.2

• Ref 1487: Topping up the Paseo developer testnet bounty

• Ref 1492: Funding OpenGuild to accelerate Polkadot builder activating in Asia

• Ref 1497: Funding Polkadot Blockchain Academy for 9 months

• Ref 1498: Registering several Polkadot native assets on Ethereum (including DOT, KSM, GLMR, HDX, and more)

• Ref 1499: Retroactively funding Bounty Manager V2

• Ref 504: Providing funding for public Kusama RPC providers

👎🏾 failing

• Ref 1489: Retroactive funding for PolkaGate MetaMask Snap development

• Ref 1490: Funding the AntiScam team

• Ref 507: Reducing Kusama inflation to 5%

✅ approved

• Ref 1425: Peer3 SDK development

• Ref 1455: Statescan maintenance proposal from 2023.10 to 2025.03

• Ref 1432: Propose Curators for OG Rust Bounty

• Ref 505: Upgrading the Kusama Asset Hub runtime to v1.4.2

📺 what to watch and listen to

• Friday DOT News Pump by The Kus.

• Governance Side by Side with Ethereum, NEAR & Polkadot by Parity x W3F.

📖 what to read

• How Polkadot’s JAM Upgrade Functions Similarly to Neural Networks by JAMman.

• Parachains = Rollups (the not-so-techy explanation) by Joyce from Parity.

• Polkadot Digest Part 7 by Polkadot Editorial Team.

• Polkadot Adoption and Financial Metrics Series pt. 3: Addresses & Transactions by WagMedia.

• The Evolution of Digital Ownership: How Tokenization is Transforming Gaming, Music, and Beyond by Polkadot blog.

• Web3 Funding Playbook for Builders, Creators, and Founders by Polkadot blog.

• Understanding Polkadot’s PVM (Polkadot Virtual Machine) Formula in JAM, From the Gray Paper by JAMman.

• Blockspace is Abundant and That's a Problem by Daniel Cukier.

📅 events

• Gavin Wood is taking JAM to Protocol Berg in Berlin (June 12-13).

• Erin from Parity will lead a workshop on building test infrastructure from the ground up at Protocol Berg in Berlin.

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